. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . GARDNER GIN ON DKCK. Each belt contains 2)^^ ^^ these pockets,and two or more belts may be joined to-gether. The end of the belt is introducedin the breech-casing, and the finger pressedon tlie trigger to fire the first cartridge, afterwhich the gun may be left alone, and theautomatic action, set in motion by the recoil,fires the rest. As the recoil is but three-quar-ters of an inch, some idea may be had of thewonilerful ingenuity of the gun by consider-ing that it will fire the 666 cartridges of thedouble belt in a little over a minute, or

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. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . GARDNER GIN ON DKCK. Each belt contains 2)^^ ^^ these pockets,and two or more belts may be joined to-gether. The end of the belt is introducedin the breech-casing, and the finger pressedon tlie trigger to fire the first cartridge, afterwhich the gun may be left alone, and theautomatic action, set in motion by the recoil,fires the rest. As the recoil is but three-quar-ters of an inch, some idea may be had of thewonilerful ingenuity of the gun by consider-ing that it will fire the 666 cartridges of thedouble belt in a little over a minute, or at therate of ten a second; in other words, it re-quiresbut one-tenth of a second to load the gun,fire a cartridge, throw out the empty shell, andl)ut in a full one. Again, the recoil of the gun 890 AMEIilCAX MACHINE CANXOA AND DYNAMITE GUNS. - V t-^j^;^—^;^4-tiO^<{*-. i,)^/* V fk

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